Vaetra Unveiled by Daniel R. Marvello is another free indie that I read and enjoyed. It's the first in a series of three and I'm halfway through the second book, which I'm still enjoying.
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Vaetra series is classic swords & sorcery fantasy. There's a romantic element that is alluded to and set up in the first book, but becomes a major motivational plot element in the second. The magic ("vaetra") system is novel and developed very well and the protagonist's progression from a fear of magic to becoming a sorcerer is also an important plot component. Much of the story revolves around the "nuts and bolts" of how magic works and in that sense, I'm actually reminded of SF books and their tendency to indulge in desriptions of fanciful technology. The author's style reminds me of Mercedes Lackey, if that helps either way.
The series appears to have been well-edited (I wouldn't have made it to the end of the first book, otherwise) and the first ending wasn't a cliffhanger (or I wouldn't have bought the second). The two remaining books in the series,
Vaetra Untrained and
Vaetra Unleashed are $2.99 and $3.99 respectively and couponable at Kobo.
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Bored with his life as an innkeeper, Jaylan Forester takes a promising mercenary contract. The adventure goes out of control when he discovers that his client is being pursued by Sulana Delano, an intriguing Sword Sorceress from an enclave of sorcerers known as The Archives. Taught from birth to shun sorcerers, Jaylan must overcome his distrust of magic when an unexpected turn of events embroils Jaylan in Sulana's mission to recover a stolen mysterious artifact. Along the way, Jaylan learns that he too has the capacity to become a sorcerer. He must decide if he wants to explore his newfound abilities or resume the comfortable life he has always known. Fate has its own ideas about the path he should take.
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